Career
He was born in Odalen. He died in Ljan in 1886. He started the magazine Foreign Fattig og Riig in 1848, which he edited from 1848 to 1855.
He founded the organization Samfundet paa Enerhougen in 1850.
Among his books are En liden Postille for Børn from 1846, and Husandagtsbog from 1860.